The Land Transport Authority’s (LTA)
next-generation e-payment system for public transit, Symphony for
e-Payment (SeP), is ready for implementation...
With SeP, commuters will be able to use
cards issued by any card issuer for transit purposes as long as the
card complies with the CEPAS standard and includes the transit
application. Commuters can eventually use CEPAS-compliant cards for
Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) payments in vehicles fitted with the
new generation In-vehicle Unit (IU), Electronic Parking System (EPS)
carparks and other electronic payment systems that support the CEPAS
standard...
To give more priority to buses on our
roads the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will introduce a pilot
scheme to make it mandatory to give way to all buses exiting at 23
selected bus stops located along three roads...
The three-year time frame for school
buses to retrofit seat belts is to minimise the disruption to the
transport of these children that are displaced...
The five-year timeframe for the
remaining small buses takes into consideration the fact that
priority will be given to school buses during the first three years,
and the capacity of the workshops to handle the retrofitting work.
In enforcement operations conducted over a
13 day period, 14 errant taxi drivers were nabbed at several spots such
as Boat Quay, CHIJMES, Clarke Quay, Mustafa Centre, Orchard Towers and
Shenton Way.
Of these, 6 taxi drivers were found
overcharging and 8 were caught for refusing to convey passengers. None
was found touting...
From 1 Dec 2007, owners of commercial
vehicles such as vans and mini-buses with unladen weight not exceeding
1,800 kg will enjoy lower season parking charges if their vehicles can
fit into a car lot...
About 900 season parking ticket holders are
expected to benefit from the revision. Instead of paying the higher
season parking charge of between $120 and $185 per month for heavy
vehicles, they will now pay the lower season parking charge of $65 for
surface car parks and $90 for multi-storey car parks in residential
estates, and between $80 and $180 in commercial areas...
Apart from the meetings held in
Shangri-La Hotel, there will be several other key events, which
the Leaders and delegates will attend as part of the official
programme. They include the following:
a Gala Dinner at Raffles City
Convention Centre on Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007 .
b Reception at the Asian Civilisations Museum on Wednesday, 21 Nov
2007.
c Dinner at Istana on Wednesday, 21 Nov 2007...
As part of the security and traffic
arrangements, Police will deploy resources to conduct roadblocks and
security checks at and around all the event venues.
Over a five day period from 30 October - 3
November 2007, 26 taxi drivers were found overcharging, seven were found
touting while the rest were caught for refusing to convey passengers, in
enforcement operations conducted at several spots such as Sentosa,
Clarke Quay, Orchard Towers and Boat Quay...
Since the opening of Phase 1 of the
Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) on 26 October 2007, the speed
cameras installed in the KPE tunnel have captured a total of 3,378
vehicles speeding above the prescribed road speed limit of 70km/h in the
first six days.
A series of road works will be undertaken in
the city centre, which includes road widening works along Raffles
Boulevard from Nicoll Highway to Temasek Avenue.
Other works in the city centre will include
modifications to existing roads, such as the removal of road kerbs and
traffic islands along the confirmed F1 track alignment...
The Family SPT is for HDB residents who
require SPT to two different car parks because of family arrangements...
For such residents, who have already bought
a regular SPT to park at their own residential car park, there is a need
for a second SPT to park at another car park for visiting their parents,
children, grandparents, siblings or their in-laws.
The Family SPT will be sold at 50% of the
regular SPT price applicable to the car park where the Family SPT is to
be purchased.
The event is slotted to
start at 7.00 am on Saturday, 3 Nov 2007 at Ngee Ann
City's Civic Plaza.
To get a chance to register for the
Challenge, tune in during the qualifying period (24 September 2007
– 26 October 2007) to any three of the following radio stations:
Gold 90.5FM, Class 95FM and
987FM.
Wait for the DJ's ‘invitation to
call’. Call in. The first male and female callers of each call-in
segment will enter the Second Qualifying Round...
The PTC approved a 1 to 2 cent increase in
adult EZ-Link fares for buses. Senior citizen concessionary EZ-Link bus
fares, which are flat fares pegged to the lowest adult EZ-Link fare band
will also increase by 2 cents...
There will be no increase to all rail
fares, some EZLink adult bus fares, as well as cash fares for
buses, child/student fares and the prices of monthly student/NS
men concession passes...
"For the safety of spectators,
safety barricades will be lined up around the perimeter of the race
circuit. This is similar to the arrangement adopted by most of the
countries hosting F1 races...
"To ensure security for the event,
Police will conduct checks on bags and personal belongings at designated
access points to prevent smuggling of any weapons or prohibited
items. Spectators who refuse to have their bags check can be denied
entry. Spectators who appear to be highly intoxicated could also be
denied entry..."
"The LTA has completed its review of traffic
conditions on the roads and will be extending the coverage of ERP at the
following locations. The changes take effect from 1 November 2007..."
"The Singapore Fireworks Celebrations has
lined up two fireworks displays, on 17 and 18 Aug, at the Marina Bay
area to tie in with this year's National Day celebrations..."
"While the figures for outraging of modesty
and cheating and related offences were not significantly different,
index crimes that were significantly higher in Jan-Jun 2007 from the
same period in 2006 were rape, motor vehicle theft, robbery and snatch
theft.
"However, there is no cause for alarm. For
rape, which saw the greatest percentage increase of 32%, the vast
majority of cases (90%) involved offenders who are known to their
victims..."
"Following consultation with the
Singapore Hotel Association (SHA), the Ministry of Trade and
Industry (MTI) has decided on the following rates for the Formula
One (F1) levy on hotel room revenues:
a. 30% of the total revenues from
rooms and room packages for trackside hotels; and
b. 20% of the total revenues from
rooms and room packages for all other tourist hotels[1]..."
"A fortnight ago, on 27 July 2007, the
Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA, or the World Motor
Sports Council) set the date of the first Singapore Grand Prix as 28
September 2008.
"The 5.05km long street circuit offers a
number of overtaking opportunities, fast turns and technically
challenging sections for F1 race drivers, which, in turn, will present
viewers with compelling race action to keep them on the edge of their
seats.
"More than 70 per cent of the street circuit
is made up of Singapore’s existing road network. The Paddock building
will house the control tower, garages for the teams, hospitality
lounges, Press Room and other facilities..."
"When the construction for the new
Lornie-Braddell Road Interchange began in 2005, LTA and NParks had opted
to save the Angsana tree by bifurcating the slip road around the tree...
"Based on LTA’s observations and the
public feedback, LTA and NParks came to the conclusion that
removing the tree is the most prudent course of action to prevent
any future accidents..."
"Marina City Park will close from 1 June 2007
for the Gardens by the Bay’s site preparatory works. Marina South
Promenade facing the Marina Channel, the playing fields and waterfront
promenade will be closed to the public...
" 'The public can look forward to the Gardens
by the Bay when its first phase opens in 2010. Meanwhile, we urge the
public to bear with the temporary inconvenience and encourage them to
visit other parks in the vicinity for recreation,' said Dr K Ismail
Sudderuddin, Assistant Director of Gardens by the Bay..."
"For the first quarter of 2007, SPF arrested
920 persons for drink driving, an increase of 22% over the same period
in 2006. Slight injury accidents related to drink driving increased from
about 200 cases in 2004 to 260 cases in 2006.
"Fatal and serious injury accidents related
to drink driving have remained stable over the past 3 years, registering
38 cases, 28 cases and 32 cases in 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively..."
"Land Transport Authority (LTA), Traffic
Police (TP) and the Tampines Grassroots Organisations (GROs) will be
conducting a study in the Tampines Town to assess the feasibility of
allowing cycling on footways with effect from 27 May 2007.
"The study will last for one year and end on
30 May 2008...
"Currently, under Rule 28 of the Road Traffic
Rules, enacted in 1981, cycling on footways is prohibited. Like any
other vehicles, bicycles are to be ridden on the roads and cyclists are
required to abide by all relevant traffic rules and regulations..."
"HDB is
introducing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags
to replace the current paper disc issued to season
parking tickets (SPT) holders...
"SPT holders will be notified by post
closer to the time when the RFID tags are implemented at their car
parks. New SPT applicants will be given RFID tags when they apply
to purchase season parking..."
MR RAYMOND LIM,
MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT AND SECOND MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
"Beyond this, the LTA is completing its
feasibility studies for a new 33-station Downtown Line that will
link the eastern and north western corridors to the Marina Bay.
"When the Downtown Line is up,
residents in Bukit Panjang, Bukit Timah, Bedok Reservoir and
Macpherson can take the train to see the bright lights of the
Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort...
"As part of our long-term planning for
a future Singapore of 6.5 million population, we expect that we
will need to at least double our current rail network of 138 km
for a 50% increase in population. That means putting in the
equivalent of at least 7 North-east Lines..."
In 2005, as part of Police’s overall
enforcement strategy, more resources were diverted to ensure greater
police presence on our roads to deter motorists from flouting traffic
rules.
"The public had by then become more aware of the PSLC
deployment through Traffic Police’s website and radio.
"This contributed to the number of
summonses issued for speeding falling 37% to 51,800 in 2005 as
compared to 2004. In 2006, the number of summonses issued for
speeding decreased 13% to 45,130 compared to the 51,800 summonses
issued in 2005..."
"The number of persons killed increased from
173 to 190 in 2006. The number of persons injured increased from 8,226
to 9,706 in 2006, of which 104 suffered serious injuries...
"There was an overall increase in the
number of speed-related accidents, from 1,445 to 1,657 cases in
2006, with the number of speed-related fatal accidents increasing
by 15 cases, from 51 to 66. More than 1 in 3 of all fatal
accidents were speed related..."
"The culprit lured unsuspecting car
enthusiasts in an online motoring forum into parting with their money by
claiming that he was able to get bulk discounts on car parts and
accessories.
"The victims would place orders with the
culprit and make payment electronically. However, the victims never
received their goods. When the victims discovered that they had been
cheated, the culprit taunted them to catch him if they could..."
"The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has
awarded to IBM the contract to build the core backend technology
infrastructure for LTA’s next-generation smart card e-payment system –
Symphony for e-payment (e-Symphony)...
"The high-performance and high-speed backend
infrastructure is expected to double the present capacity and will be
capable of handling about 10 million financial transactions per day..."
"To participate, you have to undergo two
qualifying rounds. For the First Qualifying Round, you have to call in
during the qualifying period (18 September 2006 – 20 October 2006) to
any of the three radio stations when you hear the ‘invitation to call’..."
"Crimes involving handphones being
stolen, which was one of the key concerns in 2005, decreased
significantly, from 2,423 to 1,962 cases, in the first half of
2006...
"The drop in handphone crimes, despite
the continued high mobile phone penetration rate in Singapore3
, may be in part due to enhanced public education on such crimes
as well as tighter enforcement against errant second-hand
handphone dealers..."
"The number of
cases of bicycle theft averaged around 400 cases a year from
2000 to 2004. In the first half of this year, 435 cases were
reported...
"In 2004, 9 out
of 10 bicycles stolen in public places were not secured at
designated bicycle bays. Instead, the vast majority of those
stolen were secured to lamp posts, railings and pipes..."
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